Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf - Latest Commentshttp://rksbaseballbookshelf.disqus.com/"If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here."enThu, 08 Dec 2016 18:06:56 -0000Re: That&#8217;s un-American!http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2016/12/08/thats-un-american/#comment-3043075571<p>For one, Micheal Leahy's book about the Dodgers in the 1960s. I think that's one of the best books I've read in a long time, period.</p><p>Then there's The Only Rule is It Has To Work.</p><p>Again, I didn't read any of Tracy's suggestions. They might be great choices. But I have my biases.</p>Ron KaplanThu, 08 Dec 2016 18:06:56 -0000Re: That&#8217;s un-American!http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2016/12/08/thats-un-american/#comment-3042907916<p>Which baseball books did he miss in 2016?</p>dmanderson19Thu, 08 Dec 2016 16:15:07 -0000Re: What, <i>The Sporting News</i> is still a thing?http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2016/12/01/what-the-sporting-news-is-still-a-thing/#comment-3031931834<p>Back in the day (the 1970's) stat nerds depended on TSN for full boxscores of all the games - when most newspapers only had line scores or incomplete full daily boxscore coverage. Even if the games were already two weeks gone when TSN arrived in the mail.</p>drew_oFri, 02 Dec 2016 16:39:18 -0000Re: Baseball Best-Sellers, November 11, 2016http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2016/11/11/baseball-best-sellers-november-11-2016/#comment-3003774304<p>That Chicago Tribune headline looks awfully familiar the the Journal Star of Peoria headline published on Nov. 3.<br><a href="https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e2024a94d7d2480759e1028ffec14da8799169589a041367b634436909029d80.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener">https://uploads.disquscdn.com/...</a></p>dmanderson19Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:05:32 -0000Re: Hell Freezes Over (Chicago Cubs)http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2016/10/24/hell-freezes-over-chicago-cubs/#comment-2966632528<p>As a lifelong Cub fan (went to my first game in 1966), this is something I've always dreamed of but never thought would actually happen. I still can't believe it. It's been a very emotional thing when I think of lifelong Cub fans, family and friends, who are no longer with us and would've loved to see this.</p>LPLTMon, 24 Oct 2016 13:25:46 -0000Re: Bookshelf review: <i>The Season of Pepsi Meyers</i>http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2015/12/18/bookshelf-review-the-season-of-pepsi-meyers/#comment-2826211450<p>The reason that Auto ump had to be included was to make it impossible for Pepsi to play on the Sabbath. If not for that, it might be able to possible to justify getting to the stadium before the game and not technically violating the Sabbath by playing</p>Yehuda L OppenheimerMon, 08 Aug 2016 00:45:44 -0000Re: I&#8217;m blue over Green and Redhttp://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2016/04/19/im-blue-over-green-and-red/#comment-2632784926<p>These were great - I didn't know I could have gotten them for free! - I would buy them back in the late 70's at my local Walden Books.</p>jlmulls2Tue, 19 Apr 2016 22:24:09 -0000Re: I&#8217;m blue over Green and Redhttp://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2016/04/19/im-blue-over-green-and-red/#comment-2632282662<p>I love these books as well as the media guides, there was just something great about holding them in your hands</p>Gregg KerseyTue, 19 Apr 2016 16:29:24 -0000Re: There are nice people working at Dorion Suits.http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2013/08/26/there-are-nice-people-working-at-dorion-suits/#comment-2507263031<p>I remember these on CFCF12. Wasn't there a rassler that did some as well?</p>mickWed, 10 Feb 2016 19:18:35 -0000Re: Waiting for the third &#8216;strike&#8217; (bad baseball movies)http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2016/02/08/waiting-for-the-third-strike-bad-baseball-movies/#comment-2503175570<p>Chasing 3000. Stupid, saccharine and an insult to the memory of the great Roberto Clemente.</p>Dr. B.Mon, 08 Feb 2016 16:12:38 -0000Re: Bits and pieces, Jan. 28, 2016http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2016/01/29/bits-and-pieces-jan-28-2016/#comment-2486013543<p>Dear Mr, Kaplan, thanks for the mention of our book, Baseball and the Law: Cases and Materials. This is a book most lawyers are saying that they wished they had it when they were in law school. For a law book with 110 principal cases, almost 700 notes, 26 photos and 1040 pages, the price is far below the typical casebook and law book. We hope this book will be in the library of lawyers who love baseball, as well as lawyers within the industry, baseball writers, agents and baseball fans. We hope you will get the book! Wishing you all the best, and Happy SABR Day to all my fellow members of SABR. Louis Schiff</p>Louis SchiffFri, 29 Jan 2016 22:15:20 -0000Re: You know it&#8217;s coming sooner or later (the next Pete Rose book)http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2016/01/04/you-know-its-coming-sooner-or-later-the-next-pete-rose-book/#comment-2439242905<p>It's time to bring back the asterisk to baseball and the Hall of Fame! They should get a corner called the Asterisk section... and maybe their plaque's should be hung upside down!</p>Jerry Pritikin The BleacherMon, 04 Jan 2016 13:03:12 -0000Re: Missing after action: Hall of Famers with no biographieshttp://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2015/11/16/missing-after-action-hall-of-famers-with-no-biographies/#comment-2364618654<p>I might, since I enjoy this type of book (although there is no question that there has been a proliferation of them, and it is hard to get to reading them all).</p><p>Bill James wrote an EXCELLENT short bio of Lombardi which I believe was featured in the first edition of the "Historical Baseball Abstract."</p><p>The absence of a Maddux biography reinforces for me what I have always suspected: the man is not an atttention-seeker, but lets his work speak for itself. That is rare and refreshing, and one reason why he is one of my favorite players of all time.</p>Patrick MurthaTue, 17 Nov 2015 12:00:48 -0000Re: Missing after action: Hall of Famers with no biographieshttp://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2015/11/16/missing-after-action-hall-of-famers-with-no-biographies/#comment-2364559297<p>Funny, I was also thinking about a book on WIlhelm. When I was first getting interested in the game he was already old and stayed around for a few more years.</p>Ron KaplanTue, 17 Nov 2015 11:25:56 -0000Re: Missing after action: Hall of Famers with no biographieshttp://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2015/11/16/missing-after-action-hall-of-famers-with-no-biographies/#comment-2364499255<p>First, thanks Ron for this very comprehensive list.<br>Mark: I, too, am surprised the players you cite don't have biographies. But if there was such a book, would you read it? Other than Maddux or Bill Dickey, and maybe Hoyt Wilhelm, there isn't much more I'd like to know beyond a well-researched SABR biography.</p>dmanderson19Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:49:08 -0000Re: Corn on the Cobb?http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2015/06/02/corn-on-the-cobb/#comment-2344515006<p>I don't know if you ever wrote a review of A Terrible Beauty (if you did I didn't see it come up in a search). I thought it was the best baseball book of the year. If others had contended that Cobb's bad boy rep had been overstated, I thought A Terrible Beauty really went above and beyond in laying it to rest through scrupulous research and a careful examination of how many of the worst stories had come to be accepted.</p>DCListenerThu, 05 Nov 2015 13:12:44 -0000Re: Alex Rodriguez and foregivenesshttp://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2015/02/18/alex-rodriguez-and-foregiveness/#comment-2145432551<p>Not so diminished, it seems.</p>DorogoiSun, 19 Jul 2015 14:40:34 -0000Re: Moving onhttp://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2015/06/26/moving-on/#comment-2102421614<p>Approve.</p>Ron_KaplanFri, 26 Jun 2015 17:56:21 -0000Re: Moving onhttp://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2015/06/26/moving-on/#comment-2102263059<p>Looks like a yard sale/book sale could be in the works.</p>jlmulls2Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:39:29 -0000Re: Moving onhttp://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2015/06/26/moving-on/#comment-2101704022<p>I agree with Dmanderson19 on something he said. I recently just moved and have a small room dedicated to my books. As I am unpacking and getting stuff into the bookcases I have found myself more than once just sitting on the chair looking at what is there and finding some kind of joy in that. So maybe I am not as strange as I thought after all.</p>Gregg KerseyFri, 26 Jun 2015 12:58:19 -0000Re: Moving onhttp://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2015/06/26/moving-on/#comment-2101670427<p>Your attic floor will thank you.</p>dmanderson19Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:41:24 -0000Re: Moving onhttp://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2015/06/26/moving-on/#comment-2101655252<p>Amen to that, Dennis. It may sound silly, but I have taken photos of the books in boxes (for ease of identifying what is where). Those may have to suffice, lest my house start looking like this:</p>Ron_KaplanFri, 26 Jun 2015 12:33:44 -0000Re: Moving onhttp://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2015/06/26/moving-on/#comment-2101637035<p>Hi Ron.<br>I understand your reasoning here.<br>I have the majority of my favorite books (about 100) in a main-floor library. The collection is more than just baseball, it's fiction, history, hockey and Sopranos items. While I'll likely never re-read the titles on those bookshelves, I've often enjoyed sitting in a chair in the room and looking at what's there. Each title takes me back to the time I read the book, or I recall what I've read inside.<br>The bulk of my collection is in boxes in the basement, never to again see the light of day. That's where I found the copy of "Pennant for the Kremlin" I sent you a while back.<br>Parting with books is hard, but has to happen at some point before others have to deal with them and they likely don't share the connection.<br>As a good friend once said to me, "Sometimes you buy books not so much as to read them, but for the wish for the time to read them." Profound, eh?<br>Your friend,<br>Dennis</p>dmanderson19Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:24:19 -0000Re: At last, <i>The New York Times</i> gets in the gamehttp://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2015/05/29/at-last-the-new-york-times-gets-in-the-game/#comment-2052491173<p>Any author would be thrilled with inclusion in the Times, and I don't mean to rain on your parade, Charles. It's great to focus on the positives.</p>Ron_KaplanFri, 29 May 2015 19:40:10 -0000Re: Review roundup, May 27, 2015http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2015/05/27/review-roundup-may-27-2015/#comment-2048970450<p>- re: 1981 season - Mets had a minor league veteran at Tidewater named Gary Rajsich - he hit a bunch of home runs in AAA during the strike (I even think that WOR televised a game) gave fans something to root for!</p>jlmulls2Wed, 27 May 2015 20:52:03 -0000